Internet Explorer

[Steven300]

Seems fine in Opera. From my experience, when a site fails to display in IE but works fine in all other browsers, it's nearly always a CSS problem. This certainly seems to be the case here as you mentioned that it works ok when reverting to the default template. If you haven't already, I would go through your CSS file and carefully study all the changes you have made to it, especially code which affects your main page, as you stated that all your other pages work ok in IE. You might try viewing the file in a colour supportive editor to check matching braces etc. I'm no expert on CSS so apologies if what I've said is really obvious. Hope that helps.

[evotactical]

Hi guys, thanks for all your input.

I already checked my site over and over again with countless sleep nights and still can't figure out the problem, I don't believe its a CSS problem or a problem with my flash banner.

The weirdest thing is.

www.evotactical.com doesn't work on IE

but all my other pages like
http://www.evotactical.com/index.php...roducts_id=192
works perfect fine.

This is really bugging me and I'm about to go insane over this.

Does anyone else have any other idea what else could be causing this problem?

My main suspect is the forum integration part of the main page, but I don't understand why it would work in Firefox and not IE, and why all the other pages work in IE except for the main page.

Please someone who has any insight into my problem please help! I am desperately in need of help, over 50% of the visitors of my site use IE according to my site statistics so it is hurting my viewership tremendously when my front page doesn't work in IE.

Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks for your help in advance! :)

[texasemt]

Here is something else that is confusing...

I created an account on your site... When I am logged in on IE7, your index page shows up. (https of course) Log out, and no page again...
If you change teh http back to https (even if not logged in ) the index page comes up.

Soooo... it works in secure mode, but not in non-secure mode... hmmmmm

[evotactical]

hmm thank you Mark for pointing that out, now I know it isn't the forum integration causing the problem.

the secured version https://www.evotactical.com does indeed work in IE for me too...

sigh aint nothing but headaches...

[Website Rob]

Along with the other coding errors, you definitely have a problem with the Flash Header.
IE will not load the Index page because it goes into an infinite loop due to the Flash code.

I suggest you search the FAQs as there is examples of better (more correct) coding that one can use for Flash.

Also, fix your ID tags that start with a number (not allowed) and find the missing DIV tag.

Just correcting the above 3 items should solve most of your problems.

[misty]

http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showth...ight=swfobject
Above thread should help, especially Post Number 7

[evotactical]

Thanks for the link Misty, I have changed the flash code according the thread, although it makes the code cleaner, now non of the pages work in IE, not even the secured link https://www.evotactical.com. IE now pops up a warning dialog that says "Cannot open internet site, Operation Aborted" but you see the background of my site in the browser.

Everything stills works fine in Firefox like before, but now the entire site completely doesn't work in IE.

I've been up all night trying to debug the thing, I'm going to fix the ID tags and missing DIV tag tomorrow and see if it solves the problem.

Thank you all so much for helping me out, I truly appreciate your help. :)

[misty]

You are calling flash code incorrectly,,,
should look something like below, from my own
demo site which works correctly i.e.

<div id="headerWrapper">
<!--bof-branding display-->
    <script type="text/javascript" src="includes/templates/mytemplate/js/swfobject.js"></script>
 <div id="flashcontent">
   <center>
   <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
     codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/...ersion=4,0,0,0"
     id="Movie3" width="760" height="194">
     <param name="movie" value="Movie6.swf">
     <param name="quality" value="high">
     <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFCCCC">
     <embed name="Movie6" src="Movie6.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#FFCCCC"
       width="760" height="194"
       type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
       pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/...ShockwaveFlash">
     </embed>
   </object>
</center>
 <script type="text/javascript">
    var so = new SWFObject("includes/templates/mytemplate/Movie6.swf", "YOUR_HEADER", "760", "194", "7", "#FFCCCC");
    so.write("flashcontent");
</script>
</div>
<!--eof-branding display-->

BUT if you have been up all night, suggest you get some sleep.
Impossible to code correctly when tired.
HTH

[pinetreecandles]

Not trying to steal the thread or anything just wanted to add that I'm using 1.3.8a on a new site and I'm using the classic template which the only mod to it has been changing the colors, fonts, font sizes. I have on occassion the same problem.

It doens't happen all the time, but now and then in IE7 it will hang even on the admin side. Will be going along just fine and suddenly it will hang and stop working so I switch to FF and it works fine. If I clear my browers cache then it will start working again.

Not sure what could be causing it. Just wanted to mention it since I have seen it happen with the classic temp also, just not as often.

[Website Rob]

The FAQ on Flash code mentioned earlier goes like this:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="includes/templates/XXX/UUU/ZZZ.swf" width="100%" height="100">
<param name="movie" value="includes/templates/XXX/UUU/ZZZ.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000">
<param name="menu" value="false">
</object>

No offense to Misty or anyone else but the 'codebase' and entire 'embed' tag should not be used. The above code is cleaner and will validate.